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Have  you  read  the  words  of  Bishop  Law¬ 
rence  in  his  opening  sermon  to  the  General 
Convention  ?  They  are  worth  you  r  while. 

HRISTIAN  missions  have  justified  them¬ 
selves  and  confounded  their  critics. 
While  Christian  peoples  have  entered 
other  nations  for  conquest,  commerce,  exploita¬ 
tion  or  travel,  Christian  missionaries  have  been 
quietly  teaching,  healing,  comforting,  helping,  and 
uplifting  the  people.  They  have  gone,  not  to  get 
but  to  give.  To  the  trader  the  Chinaman  is  a 
trader;  to  the  missionary  the  Chinaman  is  a 
brother.  With  the  Christian  faith  always  goes 
the  sacredness  of  the  individual,  the  integrity  and 
the  rights  of  man  as  man;  hence  civic  freedom, 
seli government,  democracy.  With  the  blessings 
of  Christian  hope  the  missionary  has  taken  also 
the  blessings  of  civic  freedom.  ...  Any 
man  who  has  no  use  for  missions  is  as  much  out 
of  date  as  an  old  flint-lock  gun.  Life  .moves  too 
rapidly  in  these  days  for  us  even  to  stop  and  look 
at  him. 

When  the  Church  plans  for  world-wide  mis¬ 
sions,  she  plans  for  the  honor  'and  spiritual  wealth 
of  this  country,  as  well  as  for  the  welfare  of  dis¬ 
tant  people.  Men  everywhere  are  discovering 
that  the  Saviour’s  command,  ‘Go  ye  into  all  the 
world,’  has  philosophy  as  well  as  religion  in  it. 
The  greatest  glory  of  the  Church  throughout  the 
ages  has  been  in  the  fact  that  in  spite  of  timidity 
and  cynicism  her  heroes  have  thrust  her  outposts 


44 7 place  no  value  on  anything  1  have  or  possess  except 
in  relation  to  the  Kingdom  of  God . " 

David  Livingston 


to  the  ends  of  the  world,  in  the  perfect  confidence 
that  this  Faith  is  the  Victory  that  overcometh 
the  world. 

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Every  day  in  the  year  the  Board  of  Missions 
has  to  send  to  the  field  an  average  of  $3,000  for 
the  support  of  the  Church’s  Missions  in  40  home 
dioceses,  23  domestic  missionary  districts  and  10 
foreign  districts. 

This  amount  makes  possible  the  service  of  23 
bishops  and  1377  missionaries  in  the  home  field, 
of  10  bishops  and  232  missionaries  abroad,  with 
1 ,000  native  helpers. 

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The  transforming  power  of  Christianity  is 
evidenced  in  a  striking  statement  made  by 
Bishop  Morrison  in  one  of  the  joint  sessions  of 
the  recent  General  Convention.  The  instinct 
of  revenge  is  one  of  che  fundamental  impulses 
of  the  Indian.  But  there  is  one  power  which 
can  change  even  that.  The  Bishop  told  how  the 
fourteenth  of  June  is  the  great  holiday  of  the 
Ojibways,  and  is  the  time  he  chooses  for  his 
visitation.  This  year  many  Sioux  were  present 
to  join  in  the  annual  reunion.  One  of  the  O jib¬ 
way  native  priests  administered  the  chalice  to 
Sioux  who  in  years  past  had  killed  his  father; 
they  had  told  him  how  bravely  his  father  had 
died  in  battle  against  them.  But  peace  and 
brotherly  affection  had  brought  them  together  by 
the  Blood  of  the  Cross. 


&(ot  “How  much  of  my  money  shaft  1  give  to  God  ?” 
but  “ How  much  of  God's  money  shaft 
l  keep  for  myself  ?" 


The  central  expenses  for  administration  for  the 
year  ending  September  i,  1913,  represented  8 Ta¬ 
per  cent,  of  the  gross  sum  handled.  Of  this 
3tV  per  cent,  was  used  for  office  expenses,  sal¬ 
aries,  etc.,  the  remaining  $i6o  for  making  the 
work  known,  or  what  a  business  house  would 
call  “  promotion.” 

C. 

Bishop  Ferguson  says  that  in  times  past  the 
Church’s  workers  in  Africa  had  to  go  where  they 
were  neither  invited  nor  wanted  in  order  to 
deliver  the  Christian  message.  A  wonderful 
change,  he  declares,  is  now  taking  place, especially 
where  the  tribes  have  come  in  contact  with 
civilization.  They  are  manifesting  a  desire  for 
the  light  as  never  before.  Applications  have 
been  received  from  several  tribes,  begging  that 
mission  stations  be  planted  among  them. 

Bishop  Graves  of  Shanghai  says:  “The  real 
emergency  is  in  the  United  States  rather  than 
in  China — the  emergency  which  calls  us  to  seize 
for  God  the  marvelous  opportunities  He  is  plac¬ 
ing  before  us.  We  need  to  rise  to  the  realization 
of  the  fact  that  our  missions  are  not  small  and 
feeble,  but  powerful  in  their  influence  upon  the 
national  life  of  China.  Chinese  laymen  are 
showing  by  their  gifts  how  fully  they  realize  what 
a  force  for  upbuilding  their  national  and  moral 
life  our  work  among  them  is.  And  we  need, 
above  all  other  needs,  men  for  the  work. 


44 And  he  said  unto  him,  4Ho<w  much  cnnest 
thou  unto  my  lord  " 


HOW  MUCH  OWEST  THOU  ? 


'‘THE  path  made  smooth  beneath  thy  feet, 
A  The  way  made  plain  before  thy  face, 
He  brings  thy  soul,  with  patience  sweet, 
Unto  His  love’s  appointed  place. 

And  how  much  owest  thou? 


The  thing  thou  could’st  not  be,  He  is; 

The  goal  thou  could’st  not,  He  has  won; 
About  thee  throng  His  ministries, 

Before  thee  shine  the  lights  of  home. 
And  how  much  owest  thou? 


Yet  thousands  wander,  far  from  light; 

Poor  sheep  look  up,  and  are  not  fed; 

His  loved  ones  perish  in  the  night —  j 

Thy  brothers  faint  for  lack  of  bread. 

Then  how  much  owest  thou? 

C 

A  religious  census  at  the  Imperial  University 
in  Tokyo  has  revealed  the  distressing  fact  that 
more  than  4,000  of  the  students  frankly  declared 
themselves  either  atheist  or  agnostic.  Only 
eight  desired  to  record  their  allegiance  to  Shinto. 
Fifty  were  Buddhists  and  sixty  were  Christians. 

The  Church’s  prosperity  is  the  test  of  our 
fidelity  as  Christians. — Bishop  Lloyd* 

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Copies  of  this  leaflet  can  be  obtained  in  any  quantity  from 
the  Board  of  Missions,  281  Fourth  Avenue,  New  York,  by  ask¬ 
ing  for  Leaflet  No.  980. 


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